Innocent Chiluwa
List of John Benjamins publications for which Innocent Chiluwa plays a role.
2023 Reinventing identity and resistance ideology in protest narratives: The case of Oduduwa secessionist group on Facebook Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11:2, pp. 200–225 | Article
The Oduduwa secessionist group is a good reminder that Nigeria’s nationhood is still highly contested. Unfortunately, there appears to be very little or no linguistic research on the discourses produced by this emerging group of activists. This study examines Oduduwa agitators’ Facebook activism… read more
2020 Separatists or terrorists? Jews or Nigerians? Media and cyber discourses on the complex identity of the “Biafrans” Journal of Language and Politics 19:4, pp. 583–603 | Article
This study adopts a discourse analytical approach to examine the contested identity of the Igbos of the southeast of Nigeria. It analyses the significance of the social and political discourses in the media and the Internet about their claim to the Jewish ancestry and as “Biafrans” rather than… read more
2016 Discursive pragmatics of T-shirt inscriptions: Constructing the self, context and social aspirations Pragmatics and Society 7:3, pp. 436–462 | Article
This study adopts a discourse-pragmatic analytical approach to examine the various ways youths construct themselves and their group identities, their environment and socio-economic aspirations using T-shirt messages and slogans. Two institutions of higher learning in Nigeria are examined. Findings… read more
2012 Citizenship, participation, and CMD: The case of Nigeria Pragmatics and Society 3:1, pp. 61–88 | Article
NaijaPals and Nolitics, respectively a hosting site and a discussion forum by and for Nigerians, provide an opportunity for the citizens’ social and political participation. As a hosting website with social networking and blogging activities, NaijaPals maintains an online community, with… read more
2011 Media construction of socio-political crises in Nigeria Journal of Language and Politics 10:1, pp. 88–108 | Article
This paper attempts to show how social and political crises are constructed, represented/mediated in the Nigerian print media news headlines. Nigeria’s leading newsmagazines and newspapers namely The News, Newswatch, Tell, The Guardian and The Punch are selected for the study. From a corpus of… read more
2010 Nigerian English in informal email messages English World-Wide 31:1, pp. 40–61 | Article
This study applies a sociolinguistic and discourse-analytical methodology to the study of features and manifestations of Nigerian English in computer-mediated communication, particularly informal emails. The data comprise 133 email samples consisting of messages received or sent within a seven-year… read more